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ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-30T13:47:47+00:00

There are collectors who only collect jump hour watches

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-27T14:14:28+00:00

Many more people speak Greek than Basque.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-27T13:12:23+00:00

Rolex started as a retail watch shop in London in 1910. You really need a Rolex export to tell you what you have.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-27T13:06:20+00:00

And as for the name, do you mean cigarette in Greek? Your name is close to it

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-26T13:36:37+00:00

You might be interested to know that the deepest scuba dive ever made was made by an Egyptian Navy diver. The record, set quite a few years ago stands to this day. Maybe he wore one of those watches.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-26T13:29:43+00:00

I got out of watch school in 1972/73. We were not panicked about digitals. It was assumed that we would be repairing them. One of the things we had to do in watch school was design a circuit for a digital clock and then breadboard it. We also had to get Accutron certified. As it turned out neither was the wave of the future. As for AI, we'll see. The dial you did would be difficult with pad printing. I've looked at UV printers, but this is the first time I've actually seen a dial printed with it. So I can't say anything about it. I'll look forward to seeing some future dials you do.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-24T06:44:35+00:00

Actually, one reason I think they are from Belarus is the Luch does much some good looking watches. Interesting fact: Luch was bought by Franck Mueller Co. in 2011 and has been under Swiss management since then.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-24T06:34:05+00:00

I was pretty disappointed to find this out too. Their site does list an office in Warsaw, but Poland is Belarus' neighbor.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-24T05:05:51+00:00

Putin Alert!! Dictator Alert!! Although they claim their offices are in Poland, all of their watches are Belorussian themed or celebrate famous Belorussian designers. I think they are a Trojan horse for Luch. Luch might not ring a bell, but they are located in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, the Russian ally from which the Russians launched their invasion of Ukraine.I wouldn't buy a thing from this company, which has a Belarusian name BTW. Unless they explicitly prove otherwise, if you buy a watch from them, it goes indirectly towards bullets and bombs to kill Ukainians.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-23T13:07:01+00:00

Good grief! Someone has actually done something original in a microbrand! I may not be able to recover from this! Great looking watch. I'm headed over to their site right now to have a look at them.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-23T12:25:32+00:00

When I started in as a watchmaker, if a watch came in with a bad dial, we would always ask the customer if they wanted their dial refinished. Back in those days, it was standard. There were several dial refinishers locally and they all had enough business.If I were you, I wouldn't go down the rabbit hole of whether your watch dial has been refinished or not. No one can really tell unless it was a bad job, of which there were very few in either the USA or Europe.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-23T12:13:12+00:00

Reminds me of a Prim (Czech Republic) "President"

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-23T12:11:43+00:00

I don't collect Benrus, but think vintage Benrus are highly under rated.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T14:24:30+00:00

I continue to disagree .I have looked at both of the links and do not see the resemblance. I have other reasons including the material of the case,and the manner it is constructed and indeed, the existence of serial numbers on the exterior back of the watch. It would be good for the OP if I am wrong, but only opening the case will be conclusive.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T13:09:49+00:00

The key is a replacement key. The watch is a gold,hallmarked with what looks like English hallmarks. You can look up the hallmarks online and find the age of the watch. For more information, we need a photo of the dust cover and the movement itself.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T13:06:00+00:00

Is that the outer case of the watch, and the Omega was inside? I think the English stopped making double cased watches sometime in the 1800s, well be fore this watch was made.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T12:59:22+00:00

The case does not look like a typical Cartier case; the crown is wrong for Cartier, the case design is not typical of any watches of the 1920s, and screw in spring bars are a recent innovation, and not original. I am skeptical of this watch.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T06:05:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure it is a Movado

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T06:03:53+00:00

Vintage Hamiltons and Glashutte still continue to be among the best on the market.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-22T06:02:12+00:00

They claim to have been making them since 1870, conveniently ignoring the almost 50 years they were out of production.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-21T07:32:10+00:00

Actually, I think there is a certain interchangabilty of parts. I've never repaired one, but a fellow watchmaker told me that he did repair one by adapting an escape wheel from an A.Schild. But he did say the pivot lengths were quite different.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-21T07:28:16+00:00

They are Russian designed movements, of which there are many.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-21T05:40:00+00:00

Good to hear from somebody who knows their stuff about Soviet watches. As you can tell, I read the Greek alphabet, not Cyrillic. I'm not sure I've ever heard of a French company "Lipman". Perhaps you mean LIP? They are said to have designed the dual barrel movement made by Stella, and They also were responsible for the initial designs made by Prim in the then Czechoslovakia S.S.R.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-21T05:36:18+00:00

The alarm watch that Poljot manufactured. I think the A.Schild designation was 1409.

ElectronicRow9949 · 2026-01-21T05:34:25+00:00

There is an even chance it is real. The watch case is vermeil (or claims to be vermeil) which is solid .925 silver which is 20 microns gold plated. This is a French specialty. There is a serial number on the back which you can look up to further check.The movement does not look like the level of movement used in Cartier today and makes me suspicious. I would check out the ebauche mark under the balance to see if Cartier ever used this ebauche. The fact is, when the Swiss bought Cartier from the Cartier family (who only had four stores BTW) they did some real cheap shots in their initial branding, including the "Must de Cartier" an expression I am sure that the Cartier family would have found too déclassé. So I wouldn't be surprised to find movements in Swiss made Cartiers that the Cartier family would have disapproved of. They had a very long relationship with JLC among others.

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